Ealdred encouraged Folcard, a monk of Canterbury, to write the Life Saint John of Beverley.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

Most of what is known about Saint Anthony comes from the Life of Anthony.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

His other historical works included lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, as well as verse and prose lives of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola's Life of St Felix, and a translation of the Greek Passion of St Anastasius.

* CELT: On the Life of Saint Columba ( Betha Choluim Chille ) ( tr.

* The Life of Our Holy Father Saint Herman of Alaska

* Icon of Saint Herman of Alaska with Scenes from his Life

* The Life and Miracles of St. Isidore of Seville, Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

In the Life of Saint Cadoc, written around 1100 or a little before by Lifris of Llancarfan, the saint gives protection to a man who killed three of Arthur's soldiers, and Arthur demands a herd of cattle as wergeld for his men.

Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.

A life of Pope Gregory the Great has also been attributed to him, and he is credited with a Latin translation of the Greek Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

Adomnán in his Life of Saint Columba offers a longer account, which Abbot Ségéne had heard from Oswald himself.

* Adomnán, Life of Saint Columba translated and edited Richard Sharpe.

* Tudor, Victoria, " Reginald's Life of St Oswald ", in C. Stancliffe and E. Cambridge ( eds ), Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint ( 1995, 1996 ).

A Life of Saint Ninian ( Vita Sancti Niniani ) was written around 1160 by Ailred of Rievaulx, and in 1639 James Ussher discusses Ninian in his Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates.

* Vita Sancti Niniani (" Life of Saint Ninian ")

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The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

* The Gettysburg Review nonfiction prose award for " Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects ," 1994

Southern Life in Southern Literature ; selections of representative prose and poetry.

* In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson, who shared Browne's love of the Latinate, wrote a brief Life in which he praised Browne as a faithful Christian, but gave a mixed reception to his prose:

Before this, Wilson had contributed to Blackwood's prose tales and sketches, and novels, some of which were afterwards published separately in Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life ( 1822 ), The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay ( 1823 ) and The Foresters ( 1825 ); later appeared essays on Edmund Spenser, Homer and all sorts of modern subjects and authors.

The early English historian Bede cites Vergetius in his prose Life of St Cuthbert.

Prior to the start of his career as a playwright, Ford wrote other non-dramatic literary works — the long religious poem Christ's Bloody Sweat ( 1613 ), and two prose essays published as pamphlets, The Golden Mean ( 1613 ) and A Line of Life ( 1620 ).

Bede's prose Life mentions that Cuthbert combated the use of amulets and charms in the villages around Melrose.

Among other prose works from his prolific pen was a Life of Bishop Ken ( 2 vols., 1830 – 1831 ).

Ewald's main prose work was the unfinished autobiography Levnet og Meninger (" Life and Opinions ", written 1774-78, published 1804-08 ).

Her chief works in prose and verse are: The History of Saint Dominic ( 1857 ; enlarged edition, 1891 ); The Life of St Catherine of Siena ( 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1899 ); Christian Schools and Scholars ( 1867 ); The Knights of St John ( 1858 ); Songs in the Night and Other Poems ( 1876 ); and the Three Chancellors ( 1859 ), a sketch of the lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.

Above all others, Twain lampooned William Cowper Prime's Tent Life in the Holy Land for its overly sentimental prose and its often violent encounters with native inhabitants.

His sister, Laura Winthrop Johnson, assembled a collection of his poems and prose organized by the time period of his life Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop.

Porche also contributed significant portions of prose and poetry to Home Comfort: Life on Total Loss Farm, a 1973 collection of stories and essays by residents of the commune, edited by Richard Wizansky.

* Visions of Life ( 1964 ) four volumes, editor, prose comprehension

* Felix, Vita Sancti Guthlaci, early 8th century Latin prose Life of St Guthlac:

* Old English prose translation / adaptation ( late 9tth or early 10th century ) of the Life of St Guthlac by Felix:

In “ The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life ,” Bill Damon examines one of the most important personal and social issues of our time, and does so with a rare mix of sound data, compelling theory, practical recommendations and engaging prose.

The first major works Longfellow composed in the home were Hyperion, a prose romance likely inspired by his pursuit for the affections of Frances Appleton, and Voices of the Night, a poetry collection which included " A Psalm of Life ".

This Anonymous Life of Saint Cuthbert was revised on Eadfrith's orders by Bede, writing around 720, to produce both prose and verse lives.

The Vercelli Book comprises 135 folios which contain a group of twenty-three homilies, six works in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse: Andreas, Address of the Soul to the Body, Falseness of Men, Dream of the Rood, two poems by Cynewulf, Elene and The Fates of the Apostles, and a prose Life of Guthlac.